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Oakie & Duchess' SW CornerVol 6, Iss 52 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005! Since this is the last day of December, 2004, we thought perhaps we could catch many of you tonight before, after and/or at midnight to ring in the New Year for 2005. I guess you could say that this is a No frill or "vanilla" version of the OkieLegacy in Summary. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | UnsubscribeChronicles of Oklahoma...
Vol 7, Iss 30 We were glancing through the Chronicles of Oklahoma over at the View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe Black Sunday Blizzard 1935
Vol 11, Iss 26 Online at History.com I did a search for a show that was on this Sunday, June 28, 2009, concerning the "Black Sunday Blizzard of '35" that blew millions of tons of topsoil through the high plains and heartlands. Grapes of Wrath & OkiesVol 7, Iss 6 Since the talk of "Okie's," we have been browsing the web to refresh our memories of John Steinbeck's book (Grapes of Wrath) that was first published in the United States of America by the Viking Penguin, Inc [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe The Dust Bowl Storms 1932-40
Vol 11, Iss 28 Remembering the 1930's Dust Bowl days of NE New Mexico, SE Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. It was on February 21, that a severe duster struck western Kansas from the north and rolled southward into Oklahoma and Texas. The Great Dust Storms Videos
Vol 12, Iss 18 Photos and narratives of the dust storms of the 1930's, created by guerillabill - September 24, 2007 - on YouTube.com. Air Castles & Dreamers
Vol 11, Iss 26 This NW Okie comes from a long line of dreamers with roots in Oklahoma. My grandmother, Constance Estella Warwick McGill, wrote in letters from a friend, John C. McClure, of the places she wanted to go and see when she was younger in the early 1900s. John accused Constance of building "air castles." Knowles (Sands City), Beaver Co., OKVol 10, Iss 20 Knowles (Sands City), was located in Beaver County, Sec [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe |
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Vol 3, Iss 2 Slapout, Oklahoma - This week's epistle, as some would say, concerns some
history of "No Mans Land", tidbits and pictures of Slapout
(aka Nye), southeast corner of Beaver County, easterly part
of the Oklahoma Panhandle, along highway 270.
OkieLegacy/image/slapoutOK3.jpg 1937-38 Catching the Train - Woodward To Alva
Vol 12, Iss 22 Woodward, Oklahoma - We received a fabulous photo of our mother, Vada Eileen (PARIS) McGill this week from a family that Vada stayed with back in the 1930s. Ylova Jean Jaquith Mayes daughter and son-in-law sent us this following message with the photo attached, "Here is a photo of Vada and Ylova Jaquith taken in Woodward, Oklahoma. Ylova sent us this photo. She lives in Arizona and is 78 years old. She said they had taken Vada to the train station in Woodward to catch a train to Alva to go to College. Hope you like the photo. The photo was not dated, but Ylova was born in 1932. She looks like she is maybe 4-5 in the photo? So, 1937-1938 time frame would be about right. Her name now is Ylova Jean (Jaquith) Mayes." Remembering some NW Okie Legacies...A few of our readers (including this writer) have sent us memories of the April, 1938 snowstorm that blocked the streets of Alva and the Northwest corner of the state [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe April Blizzard of the 1930's...Vol 6, Iss 10 Another reader would like some information concerning a blizzard snow storm that hit Northwest Woods County (Oklahoma) sometime in April, in the 1930's [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe Living History Farm History of 1930's
Vol 12, Iss 18 The Living History Farm website states, "Farming in the 1930s on the Great Plains was perhaps the most difficult occupation in the world. Farmers not only faced a global economic slow down of historic proportions, but they also faced one of the worst, longest droughts in America's history." 1930s Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
Vol 12, Iss 23 United States - The Depression and Dust Bowl era of the 1930s had the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) that gave young men guidance, hope and pride. Many of those CCC workers went into the armed forces during WWII. The CCC workers and their families brought about a pride in our environment and preserving it. Do we need something of this sort of Corp today? Dust Bowl Disaster Slideshow & Refugees
Vol 12, Iss 18 gmbudt put this together September 20, 2009. They say, "This is a revised version of the slideshow so many of you have already watched (thank you!). I am discovering / learning new technology, hence the new version. Images of the 1930's Great Plains Dust Bowl, and the Black Sunday Dust Storm in particular, provide a chilling visual backdrop for Woody Guthrie's song Dust Storm Disaster." 1930's Dust Bowl Stories...Vol 6, Iss 10 View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe
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Vol 12, Iss 18 Bayfield, Colorado - Sadie and I join you on this 3rd day of May from SW Colorado in the higher elevations of the San Juan mountains, North of Bayfield, Colorado, where we awoke to a thin cover of snow on the ground Sunday morning. They say the first half of this week should see temperatures in the 60's degrees around here during the day. Boise City - Cimarron County, No Mans Land
Vol 8, Iss 36 Have you ever heard the story of how Boise City, Oklahoma came about? Do you have any No Mans Land stories to share? How does this version stack up to what you have been told so far to date? Dust Bowl Memories...The "Dust Bowl" website link that we put in last week's newsletter had some interesting information [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe NW Okie's Thoughts
Vol 12, Iss 18 Alva, Oklahoma - Someone wrote us this week, "We are not OKIES. They went to Califonia (California) during dust bowl. We are Oklahomans & insulted. signed all Oklahomans" Great Plains Dust Bowl of 1930's & Dust Bowl Blues
Vol 12, Iss 18 This next video is a segment from Discovery Channel's, Making of A Continent (1989-90) about the Dust Bowl wind erosion of the 1930's. Dust Bowl - Black Blizzard (14 April 1935)
Vol 12, Iss 18 windmill1947 put together, May 12, 2009, this documentary was shown on the History Channel. This took place in America's heartland from 1930-'40. Dust Bowl Alternately Called Black Blizzard Clip Man who invented 'Okie'Vol 9, Iss 50 "I received this reply from Richard Reddick, Ben Reddick's son and thought it might be of interest to you [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe |
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